Within Gastropoda, limpets (Patellogastropoda) are considered the most basal branching taxon and its representatives are thus crucial for research into evolutionary questions. Here, we describe the development of the neuromuscular system in Lottia cf. kogamogai. In trochophore larvae, first serotonin-like immunoreactivity (lir) appears in the apical organ and in the prototroch nerve ring. The a...

We recently reported that degenerating motor neurons of superoxide dismutase mutant 1 (SOD1) rodents exhibit immunoreactivity to P2X4 antibodies. Neurons with strong P2X4-like immunoreactivity (P2X4-LIR) do not show an apoptotic phenotype and are often associated with microglial cells that display neuronophagic activity. Western blot analysis showed that P2X4 antibodies recognize not only the P...

The purpose of this study was to demonstrate two cases of vertical diplopia after cataract surgery and to discuss the mechanism and types of strabismus caused by the local anesthesia with retrobulbar injection. Two cases of vertical diplopia after cataract surgeries were reported. They were operated by the same surgeon and both happened to the left eye and both presented with marked left hypotr...

We present the spectral energy distribution (SED) between 10 and 200 μm obtained for the prototype Narrow-Line X-Ray Galaxy NGC 7582 with ISOPHOT, the photometer on board the Infrared Space Observatory. The emission is spatially extended and we separated for the first time the nuclear and extranuclear infrared SEDs. The nuclear luminosity (LIR ∼ 4.5×10 10 L⊙) is dominated by cold (T ∼ 32 K) dus...

Replication, DNA organization, and mismatch repair (MMR) can influence recombination. We examined the effects of altered replication due to a mutation in the polymerase delta gene, long inverted repeats (LIRs) in motifs similar to those in higher eukaryotes, and MMR on intrachromosomal recombination between highly diverged (28%) truncated genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. A combination of alte...

Leprosy presents as a clinical and immunological spectrum of disease. With the use of gene expression profiling, we observed that a distinction in gene expression correlates with and accurately classifies the clinical form of the disease. Genes belonging to the leukocyte immunoglobulin-like receptor (LIR) family were significantly up-regulated in lesions of lepromatous patients suffering from t...

Atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) has previously been localized in areas of mammalian brain associated with olfaction, cardiovascular function, and fluid/electrolyte homeostasis. Despite the presence of several types of natriuretic peptide receptors in mammalian cerebellum, neither intrinsic nor extrinsic sources of the natriuretic peptides have been described. In this report we describe the imm...

The need for interoperability among geospatial resources in different natural languages evidences the difficulties to cope with domain representations highly dependent of the culture in which they have been conceived. In this paper we characterize the problem of representing cultural discrepancies in ontologies. We argue that such differences can be accounted for at the ontology terminological ...

We report observations of the CO(2–1) emission of SDSS J1506+54, a compact (re ≈ 135 pc) starburst galaxy at z = 0.6. SDSS J1506+54 appears to be forming stars close to the limit allowed by stellar radiation pressure feedback models: the measured LIR/L′CO ≈ 1500 is one of the highest measured for any galaxy. With its compact optical morphology but extended low surface brightness envelope, post-...

We present multi–filter far infrared photometry of active and inactive galaxies obtained with ISOPHOT. We find that the far infrared and submillimeter spectrum of the active galaxies can be described by a single modified black–body at a color temperature of 31.5 ± 2.8K. The ratio of infrared luminosity to gas mass, LIR/Mgas, where the latter quantity has been obtained from 1.3 mm observations w...